Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 05 2008:
IN AN attempt to popularise and boost the sale of high-quality orange in Manipur's Tamenglong bordering Nagaland, a special state level organge festival would be launched on December 8 next.
'We have completed all arrangements for holding the festival on a grand scale Tamenglong district headquarters,' Ramkung Pamei, convenor of media and publicity committee of the festival.
He said main programme of the festival would be 'orange queen competition, fashion show, best orange competition bamboo-made craft items'.
Official sources said oranges of different varieties were grown in large number at various parts of the district including Tamenglong headquarters, Dailong, Valo, Wairangba, Tharon, Songpram, Nungtek and others.
They said the oranges, available in the district, were of very high-quality and were in great demand.
Thousands of people from different parts of the state used to throng the district in earlier orange festival to buy oranges and those oranges left over after the festival were bought by state horticulture department to make orange juice.
Organising committee of the festival would also organise such festival at sub-divisional headquarters of the district.